The two decades brought about huge social and economic change for the local community and its residents. These images, plucked from the YEP archive, highlight the everyday struggles people faced as well as green shoots of recovery and hope for the future. They are sure to evoke memories for the generations of people who grew up in the suburb. Is it a Wortley you remember? READ MORE: Memories of Armley's Tong Road during the 1960s | Memories of Armley and Bramley during the 1960s and 1970s LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook
7. Memories of Wortley
December 1972 and this is the former premises of the Boy's Brigade (27th Leeds Company) on Upper Wortley Road and Churchill Street. Photo: West Yorkshire Archive Service
9. Memories of Wortley
The old Bethel Chapel in Upper Wortley Road, its windows bare, its doors boarded up and its burial ground deep in weeds in July 1973.
10. Memories of Wortley
Wortley Boys Under-11s and Under-13s squads pictured in April 1984. Both teams played in the Garforth Junior League.
11. Memories of Wortley
Andrew Ross takes his daughter's baby for an outing down muddy Wheelwright Avenue in Lower Wortley in 1969. With him is two-year-old Colin Glacken who lives in the avenue.
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Wortley's Thornhill Middle School in July 1988. Parents were urging the city council to remove several traveller families who had parked their caravans on the playing field of the school.